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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Park and Cemetery 
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LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
ESTABLISHED 1890. 
OBJECT: To advance Art-out-of-Doors, with 
special reference to the Improvement of parks, 
cemeteries, home grounds, and the promotion of 
Town and Village Improvement Associations, 
etc. 
DISCUSSIONS of subjects pertinent to these 
columns by persons practically acquainted with 
them, are especially desired. 
ANNUAL KEPOKTS of Parks, Cemeteries, 
Horticultural, Local Improvement and similar 
societies are solicited, 
PHOTOGRAPHS or sketches of specimen 
trees, new and little known trees and shrubs, 
landscape effects, entrances, buildings, etc., are 
solicited. 
John W. Weston, C. E,, Editor. 
R, J. HAIGHT, Publisher, 
324 Dearborn St., CHICAGO, 
Eastern Office > 
1536 Am.Tract Society Bldg., New York, 
Subscription $1.00 a Year in Advance. 
Foreign Subscription $1.50. 
Published Monthly. 
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN CEME- 
tery Superintendents ; President, Prank En- 
rich, “Woodward Lawn”, Detroit, Mich.; 
Vice-President, H. Wilson Ross, “Newton”, 
Newton Center, Mass; Secretary and Treas- 
urer, J. H. Morton, “City Cemeteries”, Boston, 
Mass. 
The Sixteenth Annual Convention will be 
held at Boston, Mass., August 19, 1902. 
THE AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR 
Art Association: President, E. J. Parker, 
Quincy, HI.; Secretary, Warren H. Man- 
ning, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.; 
Treasurer, O. C. Sinionds, Chicago. 
Cemetery Superintendents' Conventten, 
The Executive Committee of the .A.s- 
sociation of American Cemetery Super- 
intendents have decided on August 19, 
as the date for the convention of this 
year at Boston. Mass. Whether it will 
continue for three or four days has not 
yet been decided. 'I'he committee will 
be obliged if members will send to the 
Secretary suggestions of subjects for 
discus s:on. 
James H. Morton. Secretary. 
Publisher's Notes. 
Mrs. F. A. Warner, Pablo Beach. 
Fla., sends specimens of choice sea 
shells from the coast of Florida. She 
has a fine collection of shells from our 
own shores, the coral reefs and the 
West Indian Islands, and will send a 
dozen different kinds, together with a 
dozen scarlet sea peas, tc any one on 
receipt of a stamp for postage. 
Mr. James MaePherson will be great- 
ly obliged to any subscriber who can 
supply him with Park and Cemetery for 
May, i8g8. Address, with bill : James 
MaePherson, Landscape Gardener. 
Trenton, N. J. 
Mr. W. J. Moeller, 888 Seventh St.. 
Milwaukee, Wis., wants back numbers 
of Park and Cemetery for March, 1899. 
and February, 1901. 
We have received from B. D. Jud- 
son, superintendent of St. Agnes’ Ceme- 
tery, Albany, N. Y., an account and 
illustration of the cross and statue of 
Carrara marble recently erected in 
that cemetery in memory of Saint De 
La Salle, the founder of the Christian 
Brothers, on whose lot the monument 
stands. 
Mr. Charles M. Coring, of Minne- 
apolis, recently delivered an illustrated 
lecture before the Commercial Club of 
that city on the work of beautifyins 
home and public grounds. V’iews of 
successful improvement work we^e 
shown and applied to local conditions. 
Mr. Loring has a number of engage- 
ments for stereopticon talks, which are 
bearing good fruit, and he proposes to 
keep “everlastingly at it.” 
Transactions of the Illinois State Hor- 
ticultural Society, for the year 1901 : 
containing the proceedings of the 46th 
annual meeting held at Champaign. 
December 10, ii and 12, 1901, of the 
Northern, Central and Southern Dis- 
trict Societies, and a number of county 
societies. Edited by the Secretary, L 
R. Bryant, Princeton, 111 . A compre- 
hensive report of over 500 pages, illus- 
trated with half-tones and other engrav- 
ings. Among the papers read at the 
state and district meetings that will be 
of interest to readers of Park and Cem- 
etery are the following: Civic Im- 
provement Societies and their Work, by 
Mrs. J. L. Hartwell, Dixon, 111 .; Trim- 
ming and Pruning Trees ^nd Shrubs, 
by J. V. N. Standish. of Galesburg: 
Important Details of Spraying, by A- 
V. Stubenrauch, University of Illinois : 
Land Values and Development in Hor- 
ticulture, by Geo. T. Powell, Director- 
Briar Cliff Manor, N. Y. ; Fads in Hor- 
ticulture, by Geo. W. F'ndicott, Villa 
Ridge, 111 . ; Some Spraying Lessons, by 
A. V. Stubenrauch. 
Report of Committee on Park Cen- 
sus of the American Park and Outdoor 
Art Association. Committee, G. A. 
Parker, Hartford, Conn.; Lewis John- 
son, New Orleans, La.; John C. Olm- 
sted, Brookline, Mass. Read at the 
Milwaukee convention of the associa- 
tion, June 26, 27, and 28, 1901, and 
published in Park and Cemetery for 
August, 1901. 
The Imported Willow and Poplar 
Curculio, by F. M. Webster, reprinted 
from the Journal of the Columbus Hor- 
ticultural Society. This paper is the re- 
sults of this insect having penetrated 
east of the Rocky Mountains, and be- 
ing found in the states of the Central 
West. It embraces the history, habits 
and distribution of the pest, giving the 
detailed results of a number of experi- 
ments with it, by Mr. A. H. Kirkland, 
and offering suggestions as to preven- 
tive measures. Illustrated. 
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark. O. A 
brief history of the cemetery with re- 
vised rules and regulations for 1902. 
The Cow Pea, a neatly bound and il- 
lustrated booklet discussing the value 
and uses of this crop. Will be sent on 
application to Superintendent of Exper- 
iment Farm, Southern Pines. N. C. 
Looking Forward, a neatly illustrated 
descriptive booklet of Westminster Cem- 
etery, Philadelphia, Pa. 
200,000 Evergreen and SHade Trees. 
Oriental Planes, 
Norway, Syca- 
more, Silver (or 
softl, and other 
Maples. 
Magnolias and other 
Ornamental Nursery- 
Stock. 
NEW SHELLBARK- 
New Catalog-, New Prices— CH AS. B. 
Sugar Maples, 
California 
Privet Stand- 
ards, Hedge 
Plants and other 
Specimens. 
The larcrest size of the lat- 
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